Jennifer A. Doudna, A Crack In Creation: Gene Editing And The Unthinkable Power To Control Evolution Quotes

in 2011, Rachel and I founded a company called Caribou Biosciences to commercialize the Cas proteins.

Editas Medicine has an exclusive multimillion-dollar license with Juno Therapeutics to develop T cell therapies

we founded Editas Medicine with $43 million in financing from three venture capital firms.

As we began discussing authorship of a white paper summarizing our conclusions, we debated who our target audience should be and what kind of outcome we were hoping to achieve.

have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are heritable, forever altering the genetic composition of human kind.

It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human genome.